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GENTRIFUGAL MACHINE FOR WASHING AND DRYING TEXTILES. No. 305,049. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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JEAN GHAVANNE, ETIENNE BRUYAS, AND JEAN PHILIBERT BALME, OF

ST. CHAMOND, LOIRE, FRANCE.

CENTRIFUGAL MACHINE FOR WASHING AND DRYING TEXTILES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent, No. 305,049, dated September 16, 1884.

. Application filed March 3, 1884. (No model.) Patented in France July ll, 1883, No. 156,479, and in England August- 8, 1883,

No. 3,86l.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JEAN OHAVANNE, ETIENNE BRUYAS, and JEAN PHILIBERT BALME, all citizens of the French Republic,

and residents of St. Chainond, in the Depart;

- machine; We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying ,half of the rotating drum, also partly in sec tion.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is the cylinder or jacket inclosing the drum or basket B, which is fastened to the vertical shaft a, rotated by friction-wheels a. A perforated pipe, I), is arranged in the center of the basket. It incloses the shaft or, and rotates with the drum. this pipe through the stationary funnel O in the direction of the arrow. At m the funnel is to be connected with a suitable pipe and cock. It is closed at the topand open toward the pipe I). A helicoidal strip, cl, fastened around the shaft a and inside the pipe 1), serves to distribute the water through the perfora- Water enters into I tions of the pipe. Within the basket B are the 0 angle-shaped divisions G, forming sectional compartments S and cross-shaped compartments T around the axis of the rotating drum. The bars 2', with the skeins M, are placed by pairs one above another, and are arranged to 5 form a square within the cross T in such a manner as to bear with their extremities against two adjacent divisions, G, and to place the skeins into the arms'of the cross T. The centrifugal force of the rotating basket 50 causes the skeinsto extend horizontally. The water, entering through the. perforations of the pipe I), as required, washes the yarn and cleans every thread as they are separated from each other by the whirling mot-ion. After 55 closing the water-supply, the water will be thrown by centrifugal force out from the skeins, which thus become perfect-1y dry.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we desire to claim and secure by Let-6o ters Patent is- In machines for washing and drying textiles, the combination of the basket or drum B with the four angle-shaped divisions G, substan tially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names, in presence of two witnesses, this 27th day of December, 1883.

JEAN OHAVANNE. ETIENNE BRUYAS. JEAN PHILIBERT BALME.

Vitnesses:

ALEXANDER SPEoHT, DIEDRICI-I PETERSE 

